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No Job! What Now? by Geoffrey Moss
$30.00 NZD
Category: Business
If you are looking for work. If you have lost your job. If you have graduated and cannot get a job. If you have been demobbed from the armed services. If you are taking an early retirement. If you are returning to the work force after a prolonged absence, such as raising a family. If you are looking for ...Show more
Get off the Grass: Kickstarting New Zealand's Innovation Economy by Shaun Hendy; Paul Callaghan
$35.00 NZD
Category: Business
In a brilliant intellectual adventure that ranges from David Ricardo and Adam Smith to economic geography and the science of complex networks, Shaun Hendy and Paul Callaghan explore how New Zealanders can learn to live off knowledge rather than nature. The key to increasing New Zealand's prosperity, the ...Show more
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel H. Pink
$32.00 NZD
Category: Business
Forget everything you thought you knew about how to motivate people - at work, at school, at home. It is wrong. As Daniel H. Pink explains in his paradigm-shattering book Drive, the secret to high performance and satisfaction in today's world is the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn an ...Show more
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference - Abacus 40th edition by Malcolm Gladwell
$20.00 NZD
Category: Business | Series: Abacus 40th Anniversary
In this brilliant and original book, Malcolm Gladwell explains and analyses the 'tipping point', that magic moment when ideas, trends and social behaviour cross a threshold, tip and spread like wildfire. Taking a look behind the surface of many familiar occurrences in our everyday world, Gladwell explai ...Show more
The Great Disruption: How the Climate Crisis Will Transform the Global Economy by Paul Gilding
$25.00 NZD
Category: Business
It's time to stop just worrying about climate change, says Paul Gilding. Instead we need to brace for impact, because global crisis is no longer avoidable. The 'Great Disruption' started in 2008, with spiking food and oil prices and dramatic ecological change like the melting polar icecap. It is not sim ...Show more
The Perfect Balance: Getting Ahead How to Make the Most of Your Money by Hannah McQueen
$33.00 NZD
$34.00 (2% off)
Category: Business
Hannah McQueen is a financial personal trainer. She knows that if you want to lose weight, going on a diet isn't the answer - you need to permanently change the way you eat. Hannah believes the same logic should apply to finance. If you want to change your financial situation, you need to change your re ...Show more
Planet Ponzi by Mitch Feierstein
$50.00 NZD
Category: Business
The world economy is now approaching the final death rattle of the greatest Ponzi scheme in history: a scheme in which politicians stood by as the financial industry and sovereign governments created a vast overhang of debt, a mountain of low-quality assets - and laid the foundations for an economic di ...Show more
Winner’s Bible: Rewire Your Brain for Permanent Change by Kerry Spackman
$33.00 NZD
Category: Business | Reading Level: good
World-renowned neuroscientist Dr. Kerry Spackman shows you how to use and customize the groundbreaking tools he pioneered for elite athletes, Olympic champions, and upper-echelon businesspeople to permanently rewire your brain and transform your life. The Winner's Bible gives you mental and emotional to ...Show more
Griftopia: A Story of Bankers, Politicians, and the Most Audacious Power Grab in American History by Matt Taibbi
$32.00 NZD
Category: Business
A brilliantly illuminating and darkly comic tale of the ongoing financial and political crisis in America The financial crisis that exploded in 2008 isn't past but prologue. The grifter class--made up of the largest players in the financial industry and the politicians who do their bidding--has been gro ...Show more
Double Entry: How the Merchants of Venice Shaped the Modern World - and How Their Invention Could Make or Break the Planet by Jane Gleeson-White
$37.00 NZD
Category: Business
Our world is governed by the numbers generated by the accounts of nations and corporations. We depend on these numbers to direct our governments, our institutions, corporations, economies, societies. But where did they come from and how did they become so powerful? The answer to these questions begins i ...Show more
The Accidental Billionaires: Sex, Money, Betrayal and the Founding of Facebook by Ben Mezrich
$30.00 NZD
Category: Business
Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg - an awkward maths prodigy and a painfully shy computer genius - were never going to fit in at elite, polished Harvard. Yet that all changed when master-hacker Mark crashed the university's entire computer system by creating a rateable database of female students. Nar ...Show more
The Accidental Billionaires: Sex, Money, Betrayal and the Founding of Facebook by Ben Mezrich
$38.00 NZD
Category: Business | Reading Level: very good
At Harvard, social acceptance and success with the opposite sex had to be applied for. In the absence of family money or innate charisma, misfit and maths prodigy Eduardo Saverin dreamed of joining one of Harvard's elite Final clubs. His best friend, painfully shy computer genius Mark Zuckerberg, turned ...Show more